“The nature of water is to avoid the high and flow to the low.”
水の形は高きをさけて低きにつく。
Like water avoids resistance and takes the easiest path, martial strategy should also avoid direct conflict and seek the easiest, most efficient way.
From 極意 – Gokui (Secret Principle / Profound Truth)
Ryuso Kenwa Mabuni, founder of Shitoryu Karatedo
July 1939, Osaka, Japan
